January 9, 2009

When you are working towards a tight deadline corners are sometimes cut. When a past project is working (no mater how poorly) it often gets overlooked and is never allotted any future time. I am guilty of doing this myself in the past leaned very quickly that the job needs to be done the right way the first time. I am not sure about the history of these Crazy Network Wiring Jobs but WOW are they overrun!

I’m not sure if I’m looking at a network stack or The Flying Spaghetti Monster. I’ve done some quick and nasty cabling jobs but the first one takes the cake. The second one looks like my old Highschool networking closet before I got ahold of it and redid the damn thing. Walkie talkies and a light bulb tester at the other end going “Is it there?, OK how about there?” for two weeks.

I’ve been working with those suckers… Made my work (field support) a living hell! like 2 hours to find the right plug (when it is marked right, when it is logically marked)Too bad I trashed my pictures (bad memories)…

I love these jobs, if they where done like this in my area where I live these it guys would be fired. Just because you maybe A full licensed IT guy, dies not give you the right to do it the wrong way. Even if it does takes one or two extra hrs of work you need to do it right the first time. The word of mouth by contract is key in keeping your job in the long run.